Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] 's [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was unusually distrait as he buttered a slice of toast and cut into one of the rashers on his plate , then after a minute 's thoughtful chewing he brought down his hand on the table with a suddenness that made me jump . |
| 2 | Resting after a life 's hard work . ’ |
| 3 | After a year 's postdoctoral research , including a short spell in Sweden on a British Council award , Worswick decided that a long term career at the bench was not for him . |
| 4 | Swallow comes to Shetland after a year 's short-term assignment at Wytch Farm where he provided the engineering input into the onshore field 's scheduled maintenance shutdown in April . |
| 5 | So after a year 's preliminary investigation they moved the charter and their centre of government to Boston ( Massachusetts , though named after the East Anglian port ) in 1630 and made it clear that they intended to cut off all official connection with the English government . |
| 6 | American officials say that , after a year 's careful thought , the new democracies of Eastern Europe have come to the conclusion that NATO is a splendid thing : a watchdog against any future Soviet attempt to re-establish hegemony over Eastern and Central Europe ( see page 47 ) . |
| 7 | The newer system is cheaper to make , safer , and the tubes are still effective after a year 's continual use . |
| 8 | Les Stocker , the animal saviour from St Tiggywinkles Wildlife hospital at Haddenham has just returned from the islands after a fortnight 's hard work . |
| 9 | Cathy registered as a childminder when she started to look after a friend 's young son . |
| 10 | After a month 's frantic activity we now had an office , but we needed someone to run it . |
| 11 | After a moment 's shocked silence , he said triumphantly- ’ Measles ! ’ |
| 12 | So , what I mean is … , ’ she said after a moment 's thoughtful silence , ‘ it 's very nice of you , but I do n't need any more bother . ’ |
| 13 | After a moment 's glaring silence , Benedict sighed , relaxing . |
| 14 | Many people have succumbed to torpor after a week 's heavy drinking . |
| 15 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 16 | It had the quiet secluded air of a gentleman 's private residence about it . |
| 17 | What on earth would people think if Miriam started talking of a gentleman 's natural functions in front of the wedding guests when she and Fleury got married ; in some ways the prospect of such a solecism seemed more terrible to Louise than the possibility of one or both of them not surviving the siege . |
| 18 | At one point he rephrases the central dilemma of innovation and in so doing he implies that the most important characteristic of a school 's internal organisation is a ‘ collaborative professional relationship ’ among teachers . |
| 19 | We noted at the start of this chapter that our study of school management was not intended to be comprehensive : our concern was the management of PNP rather than that of every aspect of a school 's professional work . |
| 20 | What of the merits of a school 's pastoral care of pupils , the extra curricular sporting and other activities , school visits at home and abroad , foreign exchanges , the youth club , school productions , links with industry , links with the community , and much more , including things that never become public knowledge ? |
| 21 | It should be seen as a definite part of a school 's total reading programme in English : it is not an interruption of it . |
| 22 | to assist in the evaluation of a school 's overall performance . |
| 23 | An example of this can be seen in the list in Parsons and Steadman ( 1984 , pp. 43–50 ) of a school 's possible objectives set against possible means of achieving these . |
| 24 | At the same time there is now a more direct intervention in the nature of a school 's educational work through the introduction of the National Curriculum , bringing with it a greater concern for monitoring . |
| 25 | Accounts are also kept for shareholders , but American accounting laws allow studios to guess how well a film will do in each of its markets ( an invitation either to claim profits early or to put off losses ) ; for the tax man ( ditto ) ; and for various stars who have been promised shares of a film 's net profit — a figure which a studio wants to keep as low as possible . |
| 26 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 27 | Their conversation was interrupted by the familiar sound of a girl 's badly-acted laughter from behind the bead curtain which led to the interior of the brothel , punctuated by the growling of a man who is under the illusion that he is cock of the dunghill . |
| 28 | If surprise were a central system function then we would not , indeed , blink because the blink would be controlled by our knowledge of a friend 's good nature . |
| 29 | It becomes easy to picture himself and Boswell here , their servant outside holding the horse 's head , while Johnson 's taxi , his post-chaise , waited : ‘ The arch of one of the gates is entire , and another only so far dilapidated as to diversify the appearance , ; Sam himself with his famous stick prodding in the weeds , gauging the cut of the stone as he might examine the shoulders of a friend 's new frock-coat , measuring distances , tracing nave , crossing , choir , transept — inhaling meaning and implication , and converting it into judgment and knowledge . |
| 30 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |